Escaping characters

In cases where asset names contain characters or blank spaces that conflict with the InfoSphere® Metadata Asset Manager command-line interface syntax, you must escape those characters in the command line.

The InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager command-line interface requires that you escape certain characters.

To escape the following characters, you must insert double quotation marks (“) around the asset names that contain the characters that must be escaped:

^ (hat, circumflex)
& (ampersand)
< (less than)
> (greater than)
| (logical or)
Blank spaces

For example, an ampersand character (&) that is part of an asset name is not accurately read by the command-line unless it is surrounded by double quotation marks. Therefore, the asset name A&C must be written as "A&C" on the command line.

When an asset name contains double quotation marks, use a backslash before the double quotation marks (\) to escape them. For example, the asset name Customer"Fixes" must be written as Customer\"Fixes\".